Life Overtakes Me (movie)

Life Overtakes Me (movie)

  • User score: 6.4
  • Production country: Sweden, United States of America
  • Producer: Kristine Samuelson , John Haptas
  • Production companies: Camera Stylo Films
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release date: 1/26/2019
  • Run time: 39 min.

Movie description

Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.

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Henry Ascher

Henry Ascher

Role(s): Himself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)

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Nadja Hatem

Nadja Hatem

Role(s): Herself - Immigration Attorney

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Mikael Billing

Mikael Billing

Role(s): Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit

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Karl Sallin

Karl Sallin

Role(s): Himself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)

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Elizabeth Hultcrantz

Elizabeth Hultcrantz

Role(s): Herself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)

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